Cotton : the fabric that made the modern world
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Cotton : the fabric that made the modern world
Cambridge University Press, 2013
- : hardback
Available at 34 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-394) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Today's world textile and garment trade is valued at a staggering $425 billion. We are told that under the pressure of increasing globalisation, it is India and China that are the new world manufacturing powerhouses. However, this is not a new phenomenon: until the industrial revolution, Asia manufactured great quantities of colourful printed cottons that were sold to places as far afield as Japan, West Africa and Europe. Cotton explores this earlier globalised economy and its transformation after 1750 as cotton led the way in the industrialisation of Europe. By the early nineteenth century, India, China and the Ottoman Empire switched from world producers to buyers of European cotton textiles, a position that they retained for over two hundred years. This is a fascinating and insightful story which ranges from Asian and European technologies and African slavery to cotton plantations in the Americas and consumer desires across the globe.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: cotton textiles and global history
- Part I. The First Cotton Revolution - A Centrifugal System, c.1000-1500: 2. Selling to the world: India and the old cotton system
- 3. 'Wool growing on wild trees' - the global reach of cotton
- 4. The world's best - cotton manufacturing and the advantage of India
- Part II. Learning and Connecting - Making Cottons Global, c.1500-1750: 5. The Indian apprenticeship - Europeans trading in Indian cottons
- 6. New consuming habits - how cotton entered European houses and wardrobes
- 7. From Asia to America - cottons in the Atlantic world
- 8. Learning and substituting - printing textiles in Europe
- Part III. The Second Cotton Revolution - A Centripetal System, c.1750-2000: 9. Cotton, slavery and plantations in the New World
- 10. Competing with India - cotton and European industrialisation
- 11. 'The wolf in sheep's clothing' - the potential of cotton
- 12. Global outcomes - the West and the new cotton system
- 13. Conclusion - from system to system, from divergence to convergence.
by "Nielsen BookData"